Last Gasp

Ann Althouse eloquently calls for Kerry to concede soon, and with as much grace as he can manage.

For whatever it’s worth, I think that’ll happen before too much longer, once Kerry and his inner circle have a chance to get some rest and come down from their campaign adrenaline. I’d have rather seen it last night, but given the press of emotions, expectations, and uncertainty, I can’t blame them too much for hanging on for a few hours.

But just a few. If Kerry hasn’t admitted defeat by tonight, he’ll land squarely in the sore-loser category for the rest of his life–and he’ll take Edwards there with him. That as much as anything tells me that we’re closer to the finish than the MSM is willing to admit this morning.

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Kerry has to concede. We’re not talking Florida-like margins of victory here, and it looks like there isn’t anything to challenge in court. The election went off more smoothly that anyone was expecting, if Kerry tries to slime it with legal challenges he’ll go down as one of the most petty and dishonorable politicians in US history.

Especially with Bush’s solid popular vote lead, Kerry really doesn’t have any legitimate avenues of attack.

Even if Kerry does concede, I fully expect to hear in ten years or so from now how “he saved America from terrorism when he was elected president in 2004.” The man’s tenuous grip on reality ain’t gonna go away.

Kerry and Edwards have already shown they have no class, even if they concede now it’s too late. As to Edwards future, he has none in politics. He was on a losing ticket and he didn’t contribute a thing. His role was outsourced to Bruce Springsteen. Pathetic!

Daven, that’s why they’re going to concede this morning. Kennedy is quite willing to throw Kerry over the side if he thinks that’ll help the Democrats in the next election. Once he’s convinced this one can’t be won (and he should know as much by now), he’ll be telling Kerry to concede.

We’ll see. Personally I think Kerry would concede. I think Kennedy will want to drag it out. He is a deluded icon of the hard left and doesn’t want them to feel like the party didn’t do everything they could to bring it out.

Read some lib blogs. Full of hatred and convinced that the “Rethugs” cheated to victory. Conceding will only turn them away.

I hope they do drag it on. Won’t change the result but it will hasten the decline of the Democratic party.

Ya know, I am not so sure. Kerry has shown that he can rise to the occasion to be polite and appear magnanimous from time to time. Granted it comes across as an act, but still he should get an E for effort.

With 3.7 million in the popular vote and 140,000 in Ohio, the deficit is just too big. The only thing he can gain by dragging this out, is become another jinxed politician with no career. Like Al Gore.

[Note the Deaniac meltdown occured right after Gore’s endorsment of him. Yeah, right it was the scream that did him in. Sorry, I don’t buy that.]